And, she notes, because typological interpretation rests on "the idea that the original story is history (not just a narratorial representation of it) and that its antitype is part of that original historical event, revealed over human time but present to the type in its human incarnation" (110), typological interpretation--with its "expanded sense of the real"--brings with it a strong bias toward looking at things as events and a strong bias away from looking at things as imaginative representations of abstractions (allegory).

Andrew Murphy offers a short and straightforward survey of the scholarly terrain, focusing primarily on Ireland, while Philip Schwyzer draws a parallel between English writers of the sixteenth century, who attributed ideas and stories to Welsh writers that served English ideological purposes, and modern scholars, whose interest in early modern Wales is normally limited to its usefulness as an antitype for Ireland.

Clearly, to imagine women as progressing from type to antitype with each woman in this "golden Chaine" embodying increasing perfection is to dignify the sex's spiritual capacity; to imagine their transcendence in their apocalyptic justification at the end of time is to refute some early modern misogynist assumptions about women's comparative moral and spiritual weakness.

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